What is the lived experience of being discharged from a psychiatric inpatient stay?
What is the lived experience of being discharged from a psychiatric inpatient stay?
Psychiatric patients encounter many difficulties post-discharge reflected by quantitative data such as high suicide rates within the first 3 months. However, little is known about why discharge is so difficult. This article aimed to understand the lived experience of being discharged from a psychiatric unit. Eight participants were interviewed to explore their experiences of discharge. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse data. Four superordinate themes emerged: leaving hospital; the outside world; the journey to health; and self-identity/beliefs. Clinical implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Redding, Anna
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Maguire, Nick
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Johnson, George
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Maguire, Tess
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Redding, Anna
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Maguire, Nick
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Johnson, George
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Maguire, Tess
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Redding, Anna, Maguire, Nick, Johnson, George and Maguire, Tess
(2017)
What is the lived experience of being discharged from a psychiatric inpatient stay?
Community Mental Health Journal, [COMH-D-16-00121].
(doi:10.1007/s10597-017-0092-0).
Abstract
Psychiatric patients encounter many difficulties post-discharge reflected by quantitative data such as high suicide rates within the first 3 months. However, little is known about why discharge is so difficult. This article aimed to understand the lived experience of being discharged from a psychiatric unit. Eight participants were interviewed to explore their experiences of discharge. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse data. Four superordinate themes emerged: leaving hospital; the outside world; the journey to health; and self-identity/beliefs. Clinical implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
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Accepted/In Press date: 7 January 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 February 2017
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Professional Training, Cognition, Psychology
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/407608
ISSN: 0010-3853
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